Miley Cyrus May Take Lead Role in Film Adaptation of Wake by Lisa McMann

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Miley Cyrus may star in the film adaptation of the young adult thriller Wake, the first book of a bestselling trilogy by Lisa McMann published in 2008. (The other two books are Fade and Gone.)

Christopher Landon (Blood and Chocolate, Disturbia) will write the screenplay for Paramount and MTV Studios, which have acquired the rights for all three books in the series.

About Wake (from the publisher): Not all dreams are sweet ...

For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody- notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.

She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control.

Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant ...